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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH MAY, 1882.
8. The Licensee shall report daily to the holder of the Opium Grant the quantity of Opium sold per day. If the Licensee should make default in sending in such report, or should send in an incorrect report, all the Opium found in the shop of the Licensee shall be liable to be seized by a Police or Excise Officer and to be forfeited and shall be by a Magistrate delivered and adjudged to the Holder of the Opium Grant.
9. Before any sale and delivery of prepared Opium, exceeding 20 taels weight in quantity, can be made, there shall first be delivered a report thereof to the Holder of the Opium Grant. If prepared Opium, exceeding 20 taels weight in quantity, be sold without such a report having been delivered, the same shall be forfeited and handed over to the Holder of the Opium Grant, who shall further be at liberty to withdraw the Licence held by the Licensee, to retain all moneys paid thereunder, and to claim the monthly fees due for the remainder of the term.
10. Upon every intended sale of Opium for exportation, the Licensee must first deliver a report thereof to the Holder of the Opium Grant, stating the purchaser's name, the quantity to be bought, and the port to which it is to be exported, and pay such fee as shall be fixed by the Holder of the Opium Grant as an exportation fee. The Opium shall be packed in boxes, and each box shall be taken to the Holder of the Opium Grant for examination, who, if such examination be satisfactory, shall grant a certificate to be attached to the outside of each box. Should any box be discovered without having such certificate attached, the same shall be forfeited and handed over to the Holder of the Opium Grant, who shall further be at liberty to withdraw the Licence held by the Licensee, to retain all moneys paid thereunder, and to claim the monthly fees due for the remainder of the term.
11. No Licensee shall construct furnaces nor prepare Opium in his own shop, nor in any other place, neither shall he buy prepared Opium from other persons or shops and sell it together with that prepared by the Holder of the Opium Grant, and in the event of any Licensee making default in observance of this condition, the Opium so prepared and purchased shall be forfeited and handed over to the Holder of the Opium Grant.
12. Every Licensee must sell Opium of good and pure quality and not of inferior quality.
13. No Licensee shall remove his business from the shop or house licensed to another house or shop without the consent of the Holder of the Opium Grant first obtained.
14. The Licensee shall in every case find a surety who shall be responsible for the payment of all fees and for the performance of all and every the conditions subject to which the Licence is granted.
15. In case any Licensee shall commit a breach of any of the conditions subject to which the Licence is granted, or commit any offence against the Provisions of the Excise Ordinances (Opium) 1856-1879, the Holder of the Opium Grant shall be entitled to withdraw the Licence, to retain all moneys paid thereunder, and to claim the monthly fees due for the remainder of the term.
16. Upon every breach of any of the above mentioned conditions, the Licensee or his surety shall pay to the Holder of the Opium Grant, in addition to any penalty which may be imposed, the sum of $500, not by way of penalty, but as compensation in the nature of liquidated damages.
Passed the Executive Council of Hongkong, this 27th day of April, 1882.
J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,
Acting Clerk of Councils.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 222.
The following Statement, shewing the total Receipts and Payments for 1881, including the Accounts received and paid by the Crown Agents in England, is published for general information, together with a Comparative Statement of Revenue and Expenditure for the Years 1880 and 1881.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th May, 1882.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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